This first comprehensive publication on Dr. Paul Wolff (1887–1951) and Alfred Tritschler (1905–1970) rediscovers two of the most famous German photographers of the 1930s.

To this day, Wolff & Tritschler are known as pioneers of the Leica, as trailblazers of a lively style in illustration photography and reportage. In addition, their work, estimated at 700,000 images, reflects several chapters of German history: from the cultural awakening in the years of the Weimar Republic through the Third Reich to the Second World War, in the final phase of which significant parts of the Wolff archive were destroyed. In terms of formal aesthetics, they moved between convention and New Objectivity, Heimatstil and New Vision. There was hardly a topic that Wolff & Tritschler left out. Their photographic work has shaped our idea of ​​the old or "New Frankfurt" just as much as their wanderlust-inducing photos of car or ship journeys or trips on the Zeppelin. In sum, there are more than a few contradictions that characterize the work of Wolff & Tritschler over a good three decades. But it is precisely this that makes her work, which oscillates between service and artistic standards, avant-garde and conformity, fruitful for a broad-based, historical-critical examination.